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Start your free trialSergio Romero
3,665 PointsChanging the background color
Can someone help? "Now that we have an instance of UIColor as a stored property, let's change the background color of the backing view.
Access the view controller's backing view and assign the UIColor instance to the view's backgroundColor property."
class ViewController: UIViewController {
let blueColor: UIColor
override init() {
self.blueColor = UIColor.blueColor()
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated
}
}
3 Answers
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 PointsHey Sergio,
good job, you almost got it right! But firstly the property is called backgroundColor
instead of blueColor
and also note that you have to change the background color of the view but right now you're trying to change the backgroundColor
property of the ViewController because you're using self
, however the view controller doesn't have this property.
So if you change the name of the property and use the view instead of the view controller it should work:
class ViewController: UIViewController {
let blueColor = UIColor.blueColor()
override func viewDidLoad() {
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
view.backgroundColor = blueColor
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated
}
}
I hope that helps! :)
Xavier Avery
8,059 Pointshow do u write it in rgb form?
Mitchell Henderson
iOS Development Techdegree Student 4,058 Pointsclass ViewController: UIViewController {
// The challenge is picky, it only accepted an Int of 255 for blue
let blueColor = UIColor(red: 0/255.0, green: 0/255.0, blue: 255, alpha: 1.0)
override func viewDidLoad() {
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
view.backgroundColor = blueColor
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated
}
}